Thrive Collective
Thank you, Christian Penn, for choosing kindness and projecting beauty everywhere you go. It is Thrive Collective’s pleasure and great honor partner with Projectivity to create hope and opportunity through arts and mentoring every day. Congratulations we celebrate ten extraordinary years. Projectivity Celebrates 10 Years 0 Boone Avenue Walls: Family Wall Mural Festival (Bronx 2025)…
read moreThrowback to August 2, 2025. Relive the fun of the ninth Art of Healing Festival in Dry Dock Park in the Lower East Side. Located literally across one street from our current office and another street from our first after school location and future murals headquarters, it also adjoins our flagship PS/MS 34’s schoolyard. With…
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Celebrate Projectivity’s 10th Anniversary Gala with us on September 19, 2025, at LI Greci’s The Staaten. Purchase tickets here. Thrive Collective has proudly partnered with Projectivity Group since 2019 to create hope and opportunity throughs arts and mentoring in New York, Maryland, Washington, DC, and around the country. Projectivity Founder Christian Penn also serves as…
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The ninth Art of Healing Festival came to Thrive’s backyard of Dry Dock Park in the Lower East Side’s 9th Precinct on August 2, 2025. Located literally across one street from our current office and another street from our first after school location and future murals headquarters, it also adjoins our flagship PS/MS 34’s schoolyard.…
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At the Art of Healing Festival on August 2, NY State Assembly Member Harvey Epstein honored Jeremy Del Rio and Thrive Collective with an Assembly Citation for “exemplary service … teaching students to live bold, courageous lives,” and much more. IMG_20250813_172936 IMG_20250813_172955 IMG_20250813_172959 Whereas, a state is only as great as those persons who give…
read moreVideo produced by Tony Horn / BRIC Arts Media for NYC Council As the Art a Catalyst for Change provider at three schools in The Bronx and Manhattan, it was our pleasure to collaborate with the Bronx Museum in producing the 7th Annual Art a Catalyst for Change final event at the Bronx Museum on…
read moreVideo produced by Tony Horn / BRIC Arts Media for NYC Council The 8th Annual HeART Beat Festival returned to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on May 29, 2025. Middle school students painted murals, designed video games, experienced virtual reality, danced, freestyle rapped, performed a drum circle and so much more. Thrive Collective collaborated with…
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The Art of Healing 2025 Festival comes to Dry Dock Park at Avenue D and 10th Street in the Lower East Side, on August 2nd from 12 – 4 pm. This one is a little extra special given the park and neighborhood and intersection being Thrive Collective’s literal home base. Bring your family, or join…
read moreTogether with the Amazin’ Mets Foundation, we’re working to spread color and creativity throughout Queens! Mets players and their family members joined Thrive teaching artists led by Peach Tao to help paint a mural that highlights the New York Mets team values of family and community. A grantee partner of the Amazin’ Mets Foundation, Thrive…
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Meet Us in the Park The Art of Healing Summer Workshop Series brings visual arts workshops in multiple mediums to Washington Square Park every Wednesday in July. Paint canvases, create collages, customize totes, and more on Wednesdays from 3-5 with artists from Thrive Collective. Learn basic skills including design, color theory, and technique while creating…
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